skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At age 19 you probably don't have a superannuation but if you do expect a metric ton of income tax problems in the USA if you file tax returns here as a resident.

- it's a retirement plan for you in Australia but the United States doesn't see it as such. It's an ordinary taxable investment account for the U.S. tax system.

- if the superannuation has mutual funds as assets, these are Passive Foreign Investment Companies for the U.S. tax system. Form 8621. Hilarity ensues, etc.

- you may or may not have to file Form 3520/Form 3520-A in the U.S. because the U.S. system may/may not think your superannuation is a "foreign trust" as defined in the U.S. tax system.

Translated: this means preparing and filing a U.S. income tax return as a resident is a complex and expensive proposition.

Suggested: the U.S./Australian tax system will be broken until someone brings in the Serious People in Dark Suits (aka the diplomats); the U.S. tax authorities (Treasury Department boffins) seem unwilling or unable to see that this is a problem.

Practical suggestions: (1) don't become a U.S. resident for income tax purposes (see IRS Publication 519 for the rules); (2) if you plan to be in the USA for a while and work, terminate your superannuations; (3) alternatively, if you plan to be in the USA for a while and work, learn the hard stuff for U.S. income tax return filings or pay someone a lot of money for the first year and then copy what they did for the second and subsequent years.
Ruby’s GC Innovator, Narihiro Nakamura
I've tried it, and I'm no sysadmin. Fortunately, I had a disk quota on, set by my sysadmin, and so the bomb could only take up 2 gb of the space I had in my quota.
While often given as a joke, this is effectively what many of these "best interview question" posts really are:

Find any random old way to save time and effort in the interviewing process, then come up with some clever-sounding rationalization.
what kind
RubyMotion Easter Egg: Trololo
Run /Library/RubyMotion/bin/sim from the terminal if you have RubyMotion installed. :)
>Jeff is doing it wrong.

Yes, indeed, I find I disagree with most things Jeff has to say.
Yes, on mine too.
So... Groupon, which has already hitted the bottom and there are articles everywhere explaining how they are losing money, seems profitable. And Kickstarted, Grooveshark and Instagram which seem to be doing just fine, are not profitable... Somthing seems strange...(but I really wonder how Instagram makes money)
I had never expected my coworkers to share my out-of-work hobbies, but I had expected that if the topic came up in casual conversation, I wouldn't be labeled childish or immature for what I like doing outside of work

That sounds reasonable. But I wonder if it's always true that you can't label anyone? What if someone mentioned that they spent all weekend doing a <super childish activity> :) Would you not label them as childish? (I'm not saying anime is childish)

More to the point, I think it's fine to express disinterest or even dislike other peoples hobbies etc, as long as it's done in a non-hurtful way. I don't think that's labeling people. It's just finding common ground. It's a way to stop people from going on about things you know you have zero interest in hearing about.
All a "writedown" means is a reduction in the recognised value of an acquired asset or company.

In this case Zynga states:

"...$85 million and $95 million (excluding any income tax impact) related to the intangible assets previously acquired in connection with the company's purchase of OMGPOP."

So Zynga is saying that they overpaid, or that the asset is not performing as they wished, i.e. so they are writting-off the intangible value (the difference in price between OMGPop's real assets when acquired and its acquired price). In this case they are writing-down $85m-$95m of a reported $200m dollar acquisition - a 43% to 47% reduction in value.
Potential idea for a hackathon! A 419eater.com for tech support scammers.

Some of them are amazing: http://www.419eater.com/html/samuel_eze.htm
wordpress.com also sell extras (storage, domain name etc), they also host premium blogs for a fee.
Who are you? What is the area of your expertise that makes you think you are qualified to make this comment? What are your sources?
Facebook certainly does pull any pages you link to, it scans 'em for images and puts those images into the message too along with a title and excerpt. This is occasionally annoying but makes messages prettier.
Web browsers support compressed data, I wonder will they try to decompress something like this?
"With static files all these problems go away and maybe our kids get to see what daddy wrote 30 years ago."

is this a good thing?
It'd be easier to do something like cat /dev/urandom > big
I Don't got todo lists!
I got Questions!

This maybe a little bit queer but FOR ME it works!

How it works:
First i dont got a APP! i got a little paper notebook and when i got a Task i dont write down:"make the CSS work better". I Write:"How can you make the css better?".
Mostly the questions are tighter and more to the point but this is just an example.
I use diffrent Colors too !
Black/Blue just to write it down
Red/Green/Orange/etc. for things that let me later know what i thought that moment.
I Carry that thing always with me! ALWAYS!
Maybe a Solution for a problem comes in my mind when iam at the Metro or on the Street.

Why i do that?
I dont like Tasks! Tasks always have this: you MUST do that and that... baaah NO I dont like it.

Really DONT use a APP!
Wunderlist, the milk thing, evernote etc. are ALL good app's
but the just all take to long!

Maybe this will change with a Touchscreen and pen but i like my paper notebook :)
> He (Arronson) and other critics say the company must still prove two things: that its qubits really can enter superpositions and become entangled, and that the chip delivers a significant "quantum speed-up" compared to a classical computer working on the same problem.

I'm curious how one goes about "proving superposition"? If one does the
most obvious thing, opening the box containing Schrodinger's cat to
observer and hence prove state, then you've just lost the superposition.

Anyhow, for those wondering about addressing the impacts of successful
quantum computing on cryptography (i.e. security of most things,
including your banking transactions on the web), you should check out
the efforts of Dan J. Bernstein (DBJ) and friends on the "Post-Quantum
Crypto" web site:

http://pqcrypto.org/

Though research is still on-going, at present it seems some algorithms
are resistant to quantum cryptanalysis. It might take a decade or two to
retool all the systems using crypto vulnerable to quantum cryptanalysis
(assuming someone succeeds in building a quantum computer), but at
least it seems like there's hope.
Throwing more money should be the answer to this problem. If your server can't handle a HN burst and assuming it's not caused by your code being badly written the obvious solution is to get a better server.

We're talking a few tens of dollars a month more. The time a startup founder spends trying to 'fix' the issue in another way would be better spent elsewhere. Pay more, move on.
Old as fuck.
I picked up a few jobs online around that same age, 13-15. I don't think I really had enough drive to start picking up better jobs or taking on follow up work for the clients.

Was a better time in a way, not really needing money I was actually more happy just doing my own stuff and helping out with sites online I was interested in.
Facebook campaigners inadvertantly make targeted pages more popular
Wow. Time certainly does fly. I remember browsing Twitter that afternoon, outside my office, having a smoke. All of the sudden, I just see Steve Jobs everywhere in my timeline. Texts starting coming in. It was a sad moment. Like him or hate him, he gave himself to the craft, sought perfection, never gave up. RIP to one of the greatest innovators of our time.
It's definitely true, that node.js isn't a full fledged framework, but I still wrote several projects using it and you know what? I don't regret it, as much as I don't regret my move from C++ to C over the past years. And for the memory usage: Yes, even my biggest project never needed more than 100MB of RAM (when not using the cluster module).

But I completely agree with "the rewrite thing". I guess the other factors made it necessary to still do it....
I've seen something similar with a PNG file for user supplied profile image [1]. The image was a 10000x10000 all black PNG image which compresses to a pretty small file size.

Unless you validate the image dimensions as well as the file size it may cause problems, for instance when GD is used to try to resize it exhausted the memory limit.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/784978
youngster at 45.

can't wait till I retire so I can finally learn some of the fringe stuff I want to play with but have no time.

to me, being a programmer is living the life of a perpetual student.

how can anyone grow bored with that?
What Can We Learn From USV's "Research" into Online Education
Twitter, PayPal reveal database performance
And also Dennis Ritchie died almost one year ago. RIP
That cost me another hour of my day :-)
Right, so people's main problem with this is a semantic issue and not actually anything to do with their privacy.
^ This.

Everyone I know who was playing Draw Something stopped playing in the 2 weeks following the acquisition.

None of them cared that Zynga took over, but they cared that they were being spammed, that the same words were coming up constantly (best way to kill the game experience), and that the service degraded visibly (lost games, inconsistencies in games, server not available).

As the games involved 2 people, as soon as some of my friends found it to be a poor enough experience and stopped using it... the whole thing unravelled really fast and the whole group of friends just stopped using it.

I couldn't make sense of it: What did Zynga do to OMGPOP? Or did OMGPOP do this to themselves in trying to justify their worth to Zynga? Did they cut servers to reduce costs, whilst 'monetising' every possible angle in the app to bring in revenue?

Whatever they did, it worked. Just not in the way they wanted.
I posted a tutorial about Chrome Dev Tools recently, it's a bit long though http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/chrome-dev-...
I like Gnome3. I will not return back to Gnome2 like interface.

However, I use my own switch-or-exec system to switch between windows (or launch programs, when no windows are open) using keyboard shortcuts, e.g. Win+F for Firefox windows, Win+G for Gedit, Win+C for eClipse, and so on.

PS.
I working for HP as sub-contractor at outsource firm (in Ukraine). Their code makes me cry. It looks like they lacking proper software architects with good knowledge about obscure but very important topics like separation of concerns or complexity curve (information bang), etc.
Brainstorming? Here's the best way.
Next week on HN, C++ released! :)
RAZR i, believe: does Intel's first real smartphone measure up?
One civilization could be at war with another and trying to hide their sources of energy.
Even more impressive: A zip file that extracts to itself. (That's also shown in the article, as a kind of "Lempel-Ziv quine".)
"Really? I dunno--I always saw employment as more of a business transaction, and I don't give a damn about the personal lives of those I do business with"

Well, I think communication is affected by personality "type". So people more "similar" communicate more effectively. If someone is not comfortable talking about anything except work, that says a lot about that person. If what it says is good or bad is another question, but to me it sounds like a boring human being ;)
Groupon isn't going to give its (recent) investors a return on what they put in, but they've always been profitable; their overheads are tiny, and they take 50% of the revenue from each deal for themselves.

I have no idea how Grooveshark ever made or plans to make any money (heck, when I worked at last.fm we were celebrating our most successful year ever in which we'd only lost $1m. 5/6 of our income had come from advertising, and 5/6 of that from targeted ads, which IIRC Grooveshark doesn't do).

Kickstarter appears to be deliberately set up as a non-profit organization.
Joining new projects - Friday with Filip
I suggest that you resist posting this kind of inquiry in a scientific discussion. In science, only evidence counts, not authority or expertise. In science, the quality of evidence is all that matters, not its source.

In religion and politics, people are judged based on their origins and their "authority". Not in science.

The OP should have posted sources or links, but apart from that, his remark needs to be evaluated on its merits, not his merits.

"Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion." — Richard Feynman
PyDev & Eclipse 4.2 (i.e.: stick with Eclipse 3.8)
This is because startup is now a buzzword, everybody wants to be a startup, from the guy in his bedroom that created the ultimate todo list app that only 5 people will see, to the huge companies that want people to keep talking about them.

Having a startup now is like being the cool kid of the neighbourhood. Some people might see it as annoying that everyone wants to "have a startup" but I think it's fine, it actually makes it easier for me to recognize those who are dedicated to what they do and those who will just waste my time.
Get some empathy. Many of us get livelihoods from what Steve and Apple built.
You quoted a pretty good definition of a startup. So why not do the obvious thing, and call something a startup iff it meets that definition? Why encourage using a different and more generic word "business", if that doesn't clarify anything?

Next we're going to get a blogpost claiming that a startup with massive growth but no revenue model shouldn't get to call itself a business (because real businesses make profit!!). And so we go in circles again and again.

Yes, many people don't know the difference between a business, a business spin-off and a startup. The solution is to label things accurately, and to explain the difference when you notice people are confused. The solution is not to use a less accurate label in protest of people using labels inaccurately!
My favourite is the novelist Chris Cleave had his first book "Incendiary" (about a terrorist bomb attack on London) released on the same day as the 7/7 London bombings.

The publisher pulled all advertising and all copies were hidden at the back of book shops as a mark of respect / so as not to be seen to be trying to profit from such an event / out of general decency.

Pretty much killed it.
Startup is the new hipster. I recall a comic image about that. Lets see if I can find it.
Sharing resources between Lua and C++
You mean make bukkit an official API?
Interesting.. how often do you pull from the db's? Do you think about it as a write-through cache?
A business is pretty clear in what it is, right? You create value for other people and make money with it. In order to make a profit more money needs to come in than leaves again. Sure there are exceptions, but this should be the basic definition of a business. Not sure if that is less accurate.
It's not my favourite compiler, I don't even use it, but I would like to see C99 support added to one.
It may be old but i didn't knew about it until it was brought up on a /r/technology thread yesterday.

Old =/= everyone knows about it.
To get a sense of clarity of his vision, read Jobs's 1985 Playboy Interview where he predicts the future before setting out to spend the rest of his life to invent it.

http://www.txtpost.com/playboy-interview-steven-jobs/

RIP Steve Jobs
Intel's Haswell Architecture Analyzed: Building a New PC and a New Intel
I was at the University College London three years ago, studying machine learning, and a researcher gave us a presentation about a new machine learning technique she was trying (it was applying SVMs to, err, I forget the medical imaging technique. Maybe EKGs). It turned out that she could reliably predict depression in a significant percentage of patients, and severe depression in 100% of patient, or some other similar, extremely high, percentage.

This blew me away, but I only now realized why. It was because I knew depression was symptomatically defined, and she had probably found a way to define it physically. I thought that the "lesser" cases she couldn't detect weren't actually physically depressed, and that her discovery was amazing. Other students didn't share my enthusiasm, but maybe that was because it wasn't very interesting from a machine learning perspective.

I wonder what happened with that. I can't remember her name now.

EDIT: I found the paper: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1316862/
Yes, I too was blocked from further exploring by this bug. Why so much clicking? Wouldn't it be much better if the box with information simply appeared when mouse hovers over the circle?
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Nothing new, it's just a pyramid setup, a few big hits raking in tons, and a whole lot of apps that are downloaded twice or make 2 dollars a month with advertising.
New approach to AI to improve many Google products
Out of curiosity I just made two images:

15,000 x 15,000: http://i.imgur.com/WzCyE.png

50,000 x 50,000: http://i.imgur.com/kgmHu.png

Both FF and Chrome refuse to open the second one. IE does something weird. Both Opera and Safari figure out the size correctly, but don't display the image.
"get a timestamp error if one node attempts to read data that was written by another node in the future (due to data moving across datelines)"

Honest question: Which part of a replication/db system would be using time stamps that weren't universal?
Star seen whizzing around supermassive black hole
I didn't know Kickstarter was a non-profit organization, I didn't find it on their website, would you mind pointing it to me?

For Groupon, for me a profit is making more money than you spend and as you said they keep 50% of each deal but then they have to spend money to pay everything and also need a lot of advertisement. Therefore afaik they have no actual profit, which would mean returning money to the investors.
New theory describes ultrathin solar cells
Was just about to post a screenshot but you beat me to a description of the problem.. Nevermind, http://imgur.com/Mkx6R
I usually do not like mouse hover to popup but at least they should have made the background clickable to hide the popup.
The AngelList of Japan, Creww.me raises $384,000 in funding
I wouldn't care about what politicians do in their private life, but the thing is WoW addiction can greatly hinder one's ability to do a good job.

WoW addicted people may not fully care about 'our' world, they may deprive themselves of sleep etc.

I would love to see some Star Craft players in the senate tough.
How To Become A Successful CAD Designer
A Biological Effect Of Aging May Be Slowed By Omega-3 Supplements
The took our jobs!
true, there are some annoying bugs (I didn't notice the filtering thing). I emailed the company to point that out. anyway, I liked very much the idea!
I'd love to see that comic, the perfect example of startup hipster was posted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4608625
>Old as fuck.

So is algebra, and yet, every year millions of people learn it for the first time.
That's kind of optimistic.
"Hack till you retire" - Sean MacGuire
Did anybody else see this oddball response by the author to a compliment he got in the comments?

alexwillhelm: "The fuck are you banging on about?

I linked because that bit is one of WolframAlpha's more useful features. It's a great way to get time scale when you need it. Have fun counting by hand, you Luddite.
You are right that "a lot" of journalists would not have done that. Thank god I am not one of those.
Also, next time you waste my 30 seconds, have a point.
Yes you fuckwit, it is in fact "MAJOR."
A"

Insane.
Maybe, maybe not. They got rid of my 'flag' button when I wrote that I flag global warming stories as being off topic, a position I still maintain: very few people here know much about the actual science, so it mostly ends up being a debate ranging between people convinced that it's all a communist plot to interfere with the Free Market to those who'd like to shut down all industrial activity, and everything between; argued mostly out of people's beliefs and ideology, and changing no one's opinions.
But they don't immediately rush out to tell the world the "News"
Deep packet inspection (network analysis).
If you read Don Box's book on COM he takes you through each part of it explaining in detail why it is the way it is. Every point is justifiable and the book is convincing.

However it clearly didn't work as a whole as Microsoft felt the need to replace it with .Net for application level programmers.
In your blogpost you said that you used to refer to what you were doing as a startup and don't anymore. So either your organization wasn't a startup in the first place (and now you started labeling it correctly) or your organization is a startup, in which case that's exactly what you should call it.
Hosting all versions for Bootstrap documents.
I've always liked the \r-trick:

a=b=c=d=(e=1..100).each do |num|
print num, ?\r,
("Fizz" unless (a = !a) .. (a = !a)),
("Buzz" unless (b = !b) ... !((c = !c) .. (c = !c))),
("Bazz" unless ((d = !d) .. (d = !d)) ... (e = !e)),
?\n
end
Tried to find it. I might be confusing it with the other comic about pivoting on Lean Startup. Will post it when I find it.
I can turn around a project in a few months easily, and all my _running_ software will be C or C++. The secret is leverage and code generation (Where I will use a scripting language)
Steve Jobs Timeline 
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Not strictly true. In the bigger companies, everyone knows that DBs (which is really just a special case of I/O) and I/O are slow (we tend not to hire them if they don't - one of my favoured systems & arch. interview questions[1] is on memory/storage hierarchies). The more interesting problem is what ELSE you've traded off to eliminate I/O on the common path - and in many languages it turns out to be memory fragmentation and/or garbage collection time. In Java, stop-the-world GC pauses of multiple seconds are not unheard of, and it's no fun being Oracle's test bed for undocumented GC features. It's also no fun when you find out you can't restart your multi-gigabyte heap JVM because the underlying OS has fragmented RAM so badly it can't alloc that heap in a single contiguous chunk.
Interesting. Thanks for the answer. I'm a little surprised that .NET can't juggle network connections very well but in retrospect, I probably shouldn't be.
I've done quite a lot of C++ programming and can generally work my way through template error messages, but still totally agree - it would be much nicer if I didn't have to.

Even if it can't be solved generally (which seems likely since nobody's done it yet) just some special casing for STL containers and algorithms would go a long way.